“The living entity in the material world carries his different conceptions of life from one body to another as the air carries aromas.”

Like bringing curry take-out along to the moon. Some adaptations necessarily will be made, but it’s expected that the astronauts will nevertheless still identify with their Indian nationality, mindset and culture.

Similarly, when we jettison this body and are thrust into another at the time of death, we carry with us our state of mind, our consciousness.

“Whatever state of being one remembers when he quits his body, that state he will attain without fail.” (Bhagavad-gita 8.7)

At that time, the bodily senses are greatly disturbed, and it is difficult to subdue the mind, which naturally recalls whatever or whoever we happen to be most attached to. We might think of a loved one – husband or child or pet – or of an unfinished project or of hearth and home or we may think of our enemy with thoughts of revenge. These thoughts set us up for our next life, so that we pick up from where we have left off. Not that we will have the same birth again, the same “identity”, but in the next birth, we will identify with the same strong desires or attachments that we nurture in this life.

In this life we are preparing for the next. If we spend all our energy for maintaining this body and its extensions – wife or husband, family, relatives, friends, community – then again we will be caught up in the repeated cycle of birth and death to replay the same story – in a different setting, different set of characters. Srila Prabhupada called it “chewing the chewed.” Human birth is achieved only after progression through all the lower species of life, and only from the platform of human birth is it possible to be liberated from the wheel of karma and samsara. If we misuse it, we may fall back down again into the lower species. Therefore it is so important to take this opportunity to wake up to our spiritual life, to understand that we are not this body, but spirit soul – and part and parcel of God, Krishna. This we can realize practically very easily by chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra:Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. Regular chanting of these names of God, hearing the sound vibration of Krishna, purifies the mind and heart, and lifts us up, out of our bodily conception. Practicing in this way, we stand a fighting chance at the time of leaving this body to fix our mind on Krishna and leave this material world once and for all.

“In this verse the importance of Krishna consciousness is stressed. Anyone who quits his body in Krishna consciousness is at once transferred to the transcendental abode of the Supreme Lord. The word smaran (remembering) is important. Remembrance of Krishna is not possible for the impure soul who has not practiced Krishna consciousness in devotional service. To remember Krishna one should chant the maha mantra Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, incessantly, following in the footsteps of Lord Chaitanya, being more tolerant than the tree, humbler than the grass and offering all respect to others without requiring respect in return. In such a way one will be able to depart from the body successfully remembering Krishna and so attain the supreme goal.”

And it’s easy to chant the Hare Krishna maha mantra. Prabhupada has explained that there are “no hard and fast rules”. One can chant it any time, any place. Easier to pack along wherever we go than, say, a curry take-out.

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